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Matt Mullenweg on the Future of Managers: Trust…and Verify

The Automattic CEO says Bosses Need to Focus on What Their Employees Do to Drive Value

July 7, 2014 4:07 p.m. ET

"The factory model of work is dead, but its vestiges still haunt modern-day information workers from the giant companies all the way down to startups and bosses who blindly follow models of how things have been done before rather than reimagining how we work.

"It should not matter what hours you work or where you're [working] from. What matters is how you communicate and what you get done. It's a waste of the natural resources of time and energy to commute; when we break the shackles of what looks like work...